Otley All Saints CE Primary School Blog

Back in January, some Year 5 children carried out a watch on Nature Club’s bird feeders to find out which bird species were visiting us. We then submitted the results to the RSPB as part of their ‘Big Schools’ Bird Watch’ survey.

The RSPB have now analysed the results, which have been sent in from schools across the UK, and published their findings. If you are interested in seeing the bigger picture, follow the link below:

www.rspb.org.uk/schoolswatch/index.asp

At the same time, the RSPB encouraged people across the country to survey the birds visiting their gardens and these results may be found at:

www.rspb.org.uk/birdwatch/results/index.asp

Even though it’s Spring, remember to keep feeding your garden birds during the nesting season.

The Reception class loved the mile run for sports relief so much that in the afternoon some of the children decided to run the mile again. All was going well, we were on lap seven out of ten when Miss Wilson did a spectacular fall down a hole and ended up with an ice pack taped to her ankle with masking tape. However we continued round the course and finished the second mile of the day. Well done to all the Reception Class and particularly to those who ran the two miles.

The reception children have been enjoying the Activity trail this week. Thank you PTA “we think it is great!”
Here are a few photos of us enjoying our first visit.

On Saturday 8th of march 60 children and Parents from drama club went to a performance of The King and I performed by Ilkley Operatic Society.
It was a brillaint production and I hope the children gained some understanding of how a production runs.
Drama club are already busy learning songs and this week selecting audition pieces for our summer production. I am sure it will be another fantastic success but there is lots of hard work and commitment to put in before the show goes ahead on Wednesday and Thursday 9th and 10th of July.

Look at our wonderful Waterfall Collages.
The reception children worked very hard, selecting the appropriate materials to make these amazing pictures. One member of staff said that if we were selling them could she be the first in the queue! I want to dive in and have a swim around in the beautiful water! what do you think?


The rest of the collages are displayed in our classroom. Come and have a look!

This half term the reception children have been learning more about water and its uses.
The children all knew that plants need water to grow. We wondered just waht happens to the water and where it goes in the plants.
We set up an investigation with some roses to find out a little bit more. We put some white roses in a jug of water.

Then we put an individual rose in some water and ink. Could we change the roses from white to blue? The children thought carefully about this. Some thought we might have to turn the roses upside down and dip them in the coloured water. others thought the coloured water would go up the stem and into the flowre thus changing the colour of the petals.
We left the flowers over night. It was an anxious time for us all. Would the flowers have changed colour when we got to school the next day? There was an air of great excitement running round the classroom the following morning. the reception class had performed some magic! Our once white roses now had a beautiful tinge of turquoise around the edge of the petals!

Our Next Investigation.
We poured some oil into a cylinder of water. What would happen? We then found out that the oil floats on top of the water.